"Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career." — Andre Leon Talley

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.